New Bag of Fresh Ideas for Your Internet Business
- Terry Dean -
Every Internet business needs to come up
with fresh ideas to drive more traffic to their site, increase their sales, and multiple
their profits.
Too often, we get in a rut in our Internet businesses. We keep doing the same things every
day even when they aren't working.
My definition of insanity is someone who does the same thing over and over again and
expects to receive a different result.
Many people believe that there are only so many different ways you can market your
products or services, such as: banner advertising, search engines, classifieds, etc.
How do you expect to come out ahead of the competition if you are going to limit your
business to what other people in your market are already doing online?
Every multi-million dollar Internet business has one thing in common. They all came up
with a new and fresh idea for creating an e-commerce site that stands out in their
industry.
For some it was becoming the World's Largest Bookstore like
Amazon.com. Others choose to
spend their time organizing and indexing web sites like Yahoo.com. Another
company named Ebay created the largest auction house in the world.
Each leading web site had one thing in common. They came up with a fresh idea for helping
Internet users find what they are looking for. They found out what frustrations people had
and came up with solutions for them.
Yahoo was originally started by two young college guys who wanted to make the Internet
easier to use by indexing and categorizing the sites they found. This idea eventually
evolved into the portals that we see everywhere today: Infoseek, Alta Vista, Hotbot,
Goto,
etc. Guess which one still gets the most traffic? The first is the still the best.
If you are out to create little wealth for yourself and your family, then an affiliate
program may be the way to go. They can be a good start for the beginning web marketer. You
get to learn how to make money online while being taught by experienced Internet
marketers.
You will have to step over to the next level when you want to start developing some real
profits from your Internet business. You will need to come up with your own fresh
idea.
Don't tell me it can't be done. Remember, Yahoo was not created by a large corporation. It
was created by college guys. What Internet trend are you about to create or what Internet
trend can you cash in on?
It's funny. Most million dollar plus Internet businesses are not the creation of the major
corporations. There are a few to be sure, but the majority of them were originally started
by one to three people who just came up with a better way of doing things.
They all started as a fresh idea. Then, they evolved into a system and a web site. Then,
as the site grew, they would quickly become the target of larger companies willing to buy
them out. Overnight, after months or years of work, the creators become millionaires.
This type of scenario happens every day online. Don't tell me it won't happen to you,
because it could. It can only happen if you become one of the Idea generators instead of
just the Idea followers.
I want to reveal two simple secrets of success to help you learn how to generate your own
fresh ideas.
Step One: Pay Attention.
You need to start paying attention to what is happening around you. Every story you see on
the news is a potential idea for a web site. If the public is interested in a subject,
it shows you have a market.
One thing that I have found common in successful direct marketers is that they all pay
particular attention to the news. You will find that the ones who are successful are the
ones who have spotted the prevailing trends inside of a market.
I used ISyndicate to deliver daily news from Time News Daily, The Web Guide, Web
Development, News: E-Commerce, Wired News: Business, and CNET: Computers. A little further
down you will find the hottest CNET Downloads. The hottest message boards and discussion
groups online are also linked daily from this page.
Start spending time watching the world around you. What trends do people keep talking
about? What types of frustrations are people experiencing? What is the hot news of the
month?
If you go to the bottom of my News page, you can track and see what message boards and
discussions groups are hot. Jump into some of the discussions and read what people are
talking about. What are they frustrated with online? Where are the potential
opportunities?
The most successful entrepreneurs aren't always the brightest, the most educated, or the
most likely candidates, but they are people who learn how to spot opportunities.
Learn how to ask questions of your visitors. Take polls. Put a form on your site for
people to leave their comments. Find out what your targeted market is looking for. Then,
give it to them.
Step Two: Learn How to Relax.
Something that most people have yet to realize when it comes to developing fresh ideas is
that they usually don't come while you are actively working. They come later on while you
are playing golf, doing your hobbies, or in the shower.
Too often your mind is plain too stressed out and worn out to come up with solutions while
you are at your desk or on your computer. If you want to develop fresh new marketing
ideas, you are going to have to learn how to relax.
The most successful marketers are usually those who have learned the right balance of work
and relaxation in their lives. They actively work on their business and then while they
are away from their business they let ideas come while they are doing the things they
love.
You should always keep a notebook handy for this very reason. After you have thought about
and studied what types of Trends and frustrations people are experiencing online, you
never know when that winning idea may come to you. It could come when you wake up in the
morning, on the golf course, or wherever you go to relax.
If you actively prepare yourself and allow yourself to relax, you are giving your mind
what it just may need to come up with that next fresh idea to take your business to the
next level of profits.
Terry Dean is the webmaster at
http://www.bizpromo.com Visit today for turn-key web site solutions, turn-key products you can sell, and answers to all of your Internet marketing questions. For "115 Internet marketing tips" please send an email to..
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